Reviews from 2015

Bleek Magazine

Catherine Edelman Gallery is one of the most prominent exhibitions sites of the USA, a participant of the major art fairs throughout the country and abroad, an expert and opinion leader in the field of contemporary photography. Starting from the provocative debut of “Ballad of Sexual Dependency” by Nan Goldin, the gallery has been providing its public with an opportunity to see most various directions in the scope of visual arts: from street photography by Susan Meiselas and Sebastiao Salgado, fashion photography by Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts to Joel-Peter Witkin’s experiments. Read More

Artnet

Opening May 1, Paris Photo Los Angeles is back for its third consecutive year at Paramount Pictures Studios, bringing the best photography from around the world to the city of the silver screen. With 80 galleries from 17 countries, it's a shutterbug's paradise (see Paris Photo LA Taps the West Coast's Emerging Art Market). Read More

The Guardian

From rapid ice melts to calving glaciers and a snow terrain poked by dark patches, Daniel Beltrá’s stunning images show how rising temperatures and global pollution are literally leaving their dark imprints on Greenland’s pristine landscape. ‘Climate change is having its biggest and most visible impact in Greenland. It is like the canary in a coal mine; what is happening there will affect us all,’ he says Read More

St. Louis Public Radio

When the TV show “Transparent” won two Golden Globe Awards a week ago Sunday, many transgender people felt validated, and a little less invisible. That’s a goal of a St. Louis photographer and her partner, an assistant professor of social work at Washington University. They’re collaborating on a national project that would be a perfect fit for “Transparent” main character Maura, formerly Mort, who transitions at a 70. Read More

Smithsonian

The fluorescent, milky blue swirls in the photograph above might look like computer-generated imagery, but this is what Daniel Beltrá saw last July when he flew in an airplane 1,000 feet above Iceland’s Olfusa River. The whitish streams in the otherwise crystalline waters are glacial sediment, traces of the 11 billion tons of ice vanishing from the island nation each year as a result of global warming. Read More

Advocate

In the many years that Jess T. Dugan, a Boston-based trans photographer, has spent capturing images of gender-variant people, she says she's consistently noticed a striking absence in both art and social sciences: imagery of older trans folks. Read More

NewCity

Among the four wildly diverse approaches to representing the human body photographically on display here, Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s is the most inventive, although not the most meaningful. Dewey-Hagborg picks up cigarette butts and discarded chewing gum off the city sidewalks (depicted in her color shots), subjects the detritus to DNA analysis, runs the genetic profiles through a facial algorithm, and produces 3D resin portraits that presumably resemble the people who left the remains of their consumption for the scavenger-artist to appropriate (the droppings also grace her mini-installation). Read More

PDN

PDN's top 30 Choice of New and Emerging Photographers to Watch Read More

New York Times

A Chicago transplant from Florida, Clarissa Bonet was immediately taken by the urban space that was her new home—particularly the vastness of its manmade landscape. The photographer, who spent much of her day in the studio, took to the street to document her new surroundings, capturing patches of stark light as pedestrians walked along the pavement, colossal buildings hovering around. Titled “City Space,” that collection of images chronicles the urban landscape by day. Read More

Slate

Portraiture is, by nature, intimate. It invites the viewer into a private moment shared by the photographer and subject. In her latest work, “Every Breath We Drew,” Jess Dugan invites the viewer to reflect on her vision of the masculine identity. She also asks a more fundamental question about identity: How much of it is informed by our relationships to other people? Waiters passed drinks before a buffet dinner of fancy Indian food was presented. Then came a chocolate cake from the Erotic Bakery made in the shape of corseted showgirl with a male appendage. It was sliced up and served to the crowd. Read More

MUSÉE Magazine

Andrea Blanch interview with Sandro Miller Read More

ARF Weekend

Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters, is a major drawcard at this year's Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, writes Alison Stieven-Taylor Read More

Time Out Sydney

If Spike Jonze's film showed us that everyone wanted to be John Malkovich, then Sandro Miller's exhibition indicates that the feeling is mutual. For Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, Miller and the Academy Award-nominated actor collaborated to re-stage iconic images from the 20th century, by some of the greats of photography – from Irving Penn to Andy Warhol to Annie Leibovitz. Sometimes the effect is comical, sometimes uncannily realistic – and other times, downright horrifying (Malkovich as tiny twin girls will haunt your dreams). Read More

American Art Collector

If Spike Jonze's film showed us that everyone wanted to be John Malkovich, then Sandro Miller's exhibition indicates that the feeling is mutual. For Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, Miller and the Academy Award-nominated actor collaborated to re-stage iconic images from the 20th century, by some of the greats of photography – from Irving Penn to Andy Warhol to Annie Leibovitz. Sometimes the effect is comical, sometimes uncannily realistic – and other times, downright horrifying (Malkovich as tiny twin girls will haunt your dreams). Read More

American Art Collector

“My art is a tribute to Nature..." Read More

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Chicago Magazine

Three years ago, Southeast Side residents started noticing mountains of black dust—some five stories high—rising along the banks of the Calumet River. “It looked like Mordor,” says Olga Bautista, a longtime resident of Vet’s Park. “It took a while to process how grave the problem was.” Read More

New York Times

One Friday night last fall, 50 well-dressed guests piled into an apartment in Hell’s Kitchen for a party celebrating Sheela-Marie Padgett, a 57-year-old former dancer with the New York City Ballet. Waiters passed drinks before a buffet dinner of fancy Indian food was presented. Then came a chocolate cake from the Erotic Bakery made in the shape of corseted showgirl with a male appendage. It was sliced up and served to the crowd. Read More

CNN

(CNN)From Laverne Cox and Chaz Bono to Caitlyn Jenner and the acclaimed Amazon series "Transparent," it's arguably the best time in history for transgender rights and representation in popular culture. Still, we've only just begun to explore the pluralism and diversity in the transgender and gender-variant community. And older people, like elders of any sexual orientation or identification, have largely been left out of our cultural conversation. Enter "To survive on this shore," a collaboration between photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre that began more than two years ago. It includes stunning portraits of transgender and gender-variant people between the ages of 50 and 86, combining them with moving personal interviews about the intersection of gender, identity and the universal human experience of aging. Read More

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The Paris Review

Earth: it’s a neat-looking place. Agèd. Spherical. Cerulean-ish. Problem is, there are more than seven billion people here, gumming up the planetary works with such “advances” as “buildings,” “indoor plumbing,” and “rust-proof tension-mounted shower caddies.” Earth is so crowded with human beings that many of them live and work within mere feet of one another. It is, on Earth Day, something of a buzzkill. Read More

The Week

To the untrained eye, Clarissa Bonet's work easily qualifies as street photography. But to the Chicago artist, her photographs leap over the genre's boundaries into something new. "They are highly controlled performances for my camera," she said in an interview. Read More

L'Oeil de la Photographie

Since 2009, Clarissa Bonet has been wandering alone in the city, trying to capture the order and disorder in which many of us are living. Although referring to the tradition of street photography, her City Space project is made up of constructed scenes from her own experience or situations she witnessed. The anonymous city she has been photographing becomes a stage where ordinary urban life resonates as an internal space, sometimes surrealist, overwhelming, or poetic. Her most recent photographic Series, Stray Light, defines the urban landscape as a cosmos, in which each window opens on a distant individual life that we will probably never encounter. Through Clarissa’s eye, the city, a familiar environment, is in fact a great unknown. Read More

Huffington Post Gay Voices

A new photo book has just been released and it examines the power of identity, desire, and connection through the art of portraiture in 2015. Every Breath We Drew is a striking collection of images from photographer Jess Dugan, who sought out subjects that exhibit, in her words, a form of "gentle masculinity." Through this work, Dugan complicates traditional notions of masculinity by photographing individuals in intimate spaces as meaningful exchanges took place. Read More

Colossal

Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been capturing self-portraits of his nude body in natural surroundings for the better part of five decades. More than just existing in these scenic locations, Minkkinen fully merges his limbs and torso like a chameleon, blurring the lines between where the world ends and his body begins. Read More

LA Times

John Malkovich has played his share of refined psychopaths on screen, though perhaps his most famous role to date was a meta-version of himself in the 1999 Spike Jonze movie "Being John Malkovich." Read More